German human rights activist Bonhoeffer warned, “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”

While some have wondered what the world might look like if Iran gets nuclear
weapons, the reality is that the hundreds of rockets Hamas terrorists fired at
Israel during Operation Pillar of Defense have already given us a
preview.

Although the ideology of Hamas has its origins in Egypt, the
rockets fired at Israeli cities were made in Iran. Given the tremendous
suffering caused by Iran, it is time to connect the dots between the regime,
terrorism and its pursuit of nuclear weapons. And it is time to take action.
Now.

For too long the international community has turned a blind eye to
Iran’s efforts to supply rockets to terrorists in Gaza. Although the short-range
Kassam rockets are made in Gaza, the Grad rockets, with a range of 48
kilometers, are supplied by Iran through a highly complex smuggling route: Iran
to Sudan, through the Sinai peninsula and then through tunnels to Gaza. For the
past six years, Grad rockets have plagued major Israeli cities like Ashdod,
Ashkelon and Beersheba.

Recently, Iran has supplied the longer range
Fajr- 5 rockets to terrorists in Gaza. For the first time, these rockets have
been fired at Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

Why does Iran invest so much into
supplying thousands of rockets to terrorists dedicated to the destruction of
Israel? Regardless of the answer, the question itself should concern the entire
world. It is time to recognize that a nuclear-armed Iran would not just be an
Israeli problem, but a problem for most everyone.

In the 1990s, Iran and
its proxy Hezbollah provided assistance to al-Qaida in preparing the powerful
truck bombs that destroyed two American embassies in Africa in 1998. Can anyone
guarantee that a nuclear-armed Iran would not collaborate with al-Qaida again?
This time, instead of a destroyed embassy in Africa, we could be talking about a
nuclear device placed into a shipping container and sent to a port in order to
destroy an entire city. That city could be Ashdod or Haifa in Israel, or it
could be New York, London or Los Angeles.

Over the past four years, the
non-partisan advocacy group I am a part of, United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI),
has been warning of the dangers of a nuclear-armed Iran, and working to prevent
these nightmare scenarios.

To that end, UANI has identified hundreds of
major multi-national companies that conduct and profit from business with Iran,
and enable the current regime to stay in power despite international
sanctions.

UANI shines a light onto the dark business being done by these
companies by asking a straightforward question: given Iranian support for
terrorists, incitement to genocide against Israel, abuse of human rights, and
pursuit of nuclear weapons, why are you still doing business there? UANI has
succeeded in convincing many major international companies to leave Iran,
however there is still much work to be done. UANI CEO and former US ambassador
to the United Nations Mark Wallace has called for a “full economic embargo” on
Iran with the exception of the sale of food and medicine. To support this
effort, UANI is calling on citizen-activists from around the world to log onto
its website (www.uani.com) and send messages to urge multi-national companies to
end their Iran business. Companies that have pulled out of Iran have openly
cited UANI’s campaigns and public pressure as the reason for their
decisions.

As the nuclear clock ticks in Tehran, we want to pressure more
and more companies to leave Iran, and force the regime to choose between having
a nuclear weapon, or having a functioning economy.

The Iranian-supplied
rockets that were fired at Israel should serve as a wake-up call to the world
that a nuclear-armed Iran would feel emboldened to do even worse.

Before
the outbreak of World War II, the German human rights activist Dietrich
Bonhoeffer warned, “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. Not to speak is
to speak. Not to act is to act.”

It is time to act and work to prevent a
nuclear-armed Iran.

The writer is outreach coordinator for the advocacy
group United Against Nuclear Iran.